The publishers of 11 popular interest inventories were surveyed for steps taken or planned to eliminate sex bias from their instruments. It is concluded that a concern first formulated at the level of popular opinion has been translated into professional action, public policy, and actual observable change. (Author)

Discusses the overlap of research in artificial intelligence and information retrieval, focusing on the papers included in this special issue of Information Processing and Management. Highlights include the emphasis on evaluation and testing in prior research and use of manual and automatic indexing, expert systems, knowledge representation, and…

The Science Council of Canada recently completed a study, "Science for Every Student," which examined science teaching in Canada. This paper analyzes the claims of this study, examines its potential for improving science teaching in the country, and draws attention to the policy issues in the field of curriculum. (Author/LMO)

Details a data-based study exploring the relationship between grammatical proficiency and a number of variables in an introductory business communication course. Suggests that there is a small, but significant correlation between grammatical proficiency and overall performance in the course, and that grammatical competency is a predictor of…

Relativism is an inevitable consequence of our interpretive mode of being in the world. This is so for both our daily lives and our professional lives. What does not overly concern us at the former level should likewise not concern us at the latter level. (Author/BJV)

Discusses the information needs of English-as-a-second-language teachers and ways in which the ONTERIS (Ontario Education Resources Information System) system of education information databases can provide valuable assistance, covering database contents, sources, utilization, dissemination, and sample records. (Author/CB)

Eleven retarded children with mental ages (MA) less than 4.5 years were examined to evaluate whether there is a critical MA for learning basic counting principles and how an understanding of counting develops. Results are discussed in terms of individual needs. (MNS)

Sixteen Brazilian third graders aged 8-13 were given problems involving multidigit computation. School-taught algorithms were likely to be used in school-taught problems, with little carry-over to real problem situations, but resulted in more incorrect answers. (MNS)

A content-oriented analysis of written solutions to test items in Israeli high school graduation examinations in mathematics yielded six error categories: misused data; misinterpreted language; logically invalid inference; distorted theorem or definition; unverified solution; and technical error. (Authors/MNS)

Data were collected from 293 fifth-grade students. Significant positive relationships were found between science achievement and all of the attitudinal tendencies tested. (MNS)

This study concerned conceptual difficulties of college students learning programming and ways the teacher can simplify the process. An analysis of general strategies used in solving problems involving loops is given, with four types of hierarchical strategy categorized. Students had difficulty transforming their algebraic descriptions into…

If one undertakes naturalistic evaluation without formal training, there are some important considerations and sources of information to keep in mind. Labor intensive qualitative approaches are discussed in terms of field relations, data collection and analysis, and writing. (Author/LMO)

Three myths about the cognitive processing of television and its effects on children and adults--television is a passive medium, viewing decreases creativity, and viewing is an addictive behavior--are discussed and compared with relevant research findings. (MBR)

Presents five research designs--sequential analysis, value added analysis, nonequivalent dependent variables, regression discontinuity, cohort design--for studying computer-based teaching methods when a randomized two-group design is impractical; provides examples of studies employing these designs and decision flowchart; and discusses selection…

Discusses the military's use of job aids to address the following problems: how to put more training into instructional programs without increasing course length; how to save training development time and money without sacrificing student achievement; how to reduce training products; and how to increase short- and long-term performance. (MBR)